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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

And this too shall pass. In 1859 before he was president, before he suffered through the heroin train ride to Washington on his way to office where many thought he would be killed before he arrived,

before the union tore itself to pieces and hundreds of thousands of people died in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at the Wisconsin State Fair.

The subject of the speech was supposed to be agriculture, but Lincoln decided to go a little deeper. He told the story of an Eastern king who asked his wisest philosophers to provide him a sentence that would not just be true in each and every situation, but always be worth hearing.

It presented him the words Lincoln said and this too shall pass away. How much it expresses how chasing in the hour of pride, how consoling in the depths of affliction Lincoln said and this too shall pass away.

Did Lincoln know that this story was a core teaching in Buddhist philosophy? Did he know the incredible triumphs and fiery trials that lay ahead? Could he have been more than enough to sense that it applied to his brief existence on this planet that he had less than ever.

Lincoln said that he would pass away in the next six years left to live with which to do his work before he too would pass away. Marcus Aurelius certainly understood this.

The writing that we must keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone, those that are now in those to come. The events of the world good and bad, beautiful and tragic were terrifying.

Flow past us quickly. None of them are stable. Each of them disappears with due time into the rush of the water and is never seen again.

It would take an idiot Marcus wrote to feel distressed or arrogance or anger. Just wait a second. He said whether you're being elevated to the highest office in the land or sucked into the awful carnage of a war,

or locking yourself indoors during a pandemic is too shall pass. It will be taken care of soon enough.

Like me, a lot of you work from home and I think one of the dangers of working from home is burnout because suddenly you're in charge of your own schedule.

And if you're a hard working discipline person as the stokes tell us to be sometimes you don't give yourself the breaks that you need to.

But you have to remember, Seneca says the mind must be given to relaxation. It will rise, improved, and sharper after a good break.

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Some deliberate time to yourself where you pause, you step away from the computer, you step away from the work, you think, you let the mind go lax as the stokes say, and you just chill out a little bit.

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Burnout is real, especially with all the things that are going on in the world. So I want to make sure everyone's taken care of themselves.

And let's take an epic break this week. Thanks to epic provisions for sponsoring this and for encouraging everyone to do something they should be doing anyway, which is take an epic break.

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